Yeah, I have to admit to laughing happily at the number of stable time loops in this episode XD Though I thought her name was a misreading of that hanky-thing that army lass gave Amy...? But anyway. Named after herself, twice over. Got her parents together (which was an utterly adorable scene that I loved XD) Got in a lot of trouble by being a bit too obsessed with the Doctor, which I suppose was a side-effect of the brainwashing programming or something...
Still wondering at what point in her timeline she kills the Doctor while wearing a spacesuit, since it's more or less confirmed to be her. My dad thinks it must have been when she was an infant, since he says she was living inside the suit until she broke out after the whole thing with the aliens in the fifties... was that ever stated? I don't know. She didn't seem to remember it when she was at the picnic, so it either happens later in her timeline or she forgot... dunno.
I have to say, one of my favourite exchanges:
"What was that?"
"A miniaturization ray!"
"How did you know that?!"
"I guessed. There was a ray... then we were miniaturized..."
I'm not sure if it was ever explicitly stated, but yeah that's supposedly the case. You see that little her is in the spacesuit, you see the spacesuit before that kill the doctor, and you see the busted spacesuit that they mention "the person inside must've escaped, they had inhuman strength" or somethin'. Then at the end of the episode you saw her regenerating iirc.
edit: Also:
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Her name as "Melody" was chosen by Amy, so Amy still did name her daughter after her childhood friend. The hanky-whatever thing gave the name "River Song", although that's now an inconsistency also because here it's shown that River finds her name out from Amy/ The Doctor, but it's implied that she got it from the hanky thing originally. It doesn't *have* to be an inconsistency, but for it to be a stable loop, the hanky just has to be one huge inconsequential coincidence that had no bearing at all on where her name came from.
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I liked the episode. It was similar in tone to "Blink" (though obviously not as good), but I absolutely adored Matt Smith throughout the episodes. Especially any conversation/rant he had with poor Alex XDXD
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And did you notice? NOBODY DIES! That is so rare, it made the episode a bit of happy fuzz
I agree, they've gone a bit mad with the plot this season; Doctor Who's one of those rare shows that works better with sparing plot, because the individual episodes are just written so damn well.
mangaluva wrote:
I agree, they've gone a bit mad with the plot this season; Doctor Who's one of those rare shows that works better with sparing plot, because the individual episodes are just written so damn well.
I defintely agree. The one-off episodes seem to have the better villains and feel more down to earth than the ones that are related to the main plot of the series.
...way too many slow mo scenes, but . . . other than that, loved it <3. So sad, but I'm glad they didn't take the easy way out and have them both survive because that would have been cheesy and would have utterly ruined the effect.
Terry Pratchett wrote:
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
bash7353 wrote:I kind of always assumed that Haneda's parents might've had names.
...way too many slow mo scenes, but . . . other than that, loved it <3. So sad, but I'm glad they didn't take the easy way out and have them both survive because that would have been cheesy and would have utterly ruined the effect.
in the same vein as this, whoever's directing this season really, really loves slo-mo action shots where a person is needlessly spinning. I think Amy spun like 3 times in 10 seconds at the end there.
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